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6 de abril de 2015

In February I mentioned in my blog about dolls that from March I would attend to a course on recycling furniture and said that I would let you know if I like it or not. As this post is imported from my blog about doll, some people commented that they would like to see photos of the furniture we would recycle.

In order this post is not boring, I'm going to divide it into two parts. In the first, I'll show you the work I have made in March and in the second part, I'll show you the work that my classmates have done during the same month.

I only go two days a week, three hours each day. As for we have done during the first month, I have to say that I'm enjoying it and is a good atmosphere among the classmates. In total we are four men and three women counting our tutor.

This first month we haven't done much. Each one of us has begun to recycle a chair so that we could begin to become familiar with the tools and materials. I chose a small school chair that was very stained with paint and plaster, so our tutor cleaned a big part of paint and I finished cleaning removing plaster before beginning to paint.

I didn't take photos of the chair before this process, but to give you an idea, it was similar to this one but smaller:

As the backrest and seat are laminated and the structure is metallic, had to be painted with synthetic paint. It needed three coats of paint on the backrest and seat and two coats on the metallic structure. I'm sorry, I didn't take photos of the process.

When the paint was completely dry, it was decided to apply the technique of transfer with colour photocopies to decorate the chair. I chose illustrations of Yoshitomo Nara and Mark Ryden.

Transfer is an easy technique to do. Here you have a tutorial if you want to do it: link. There also are some interesting videotutorials on Youtube.

As you may have observed, the pink colour of the paint is visible because the image is transparent, that's why is preferable to do this technique on light colours. Anyway I think that it looks interesting.

I sanded edges with sandpaper to get that old and used look.

The last day I went before Easter holidays, I glued some texts in Latin using the same technique. As the text have to be read correctly, the photocopies had to be made with mirror effect.

Hi Sandi!Yes, I'm having a lot of fun decorating that chair. We're learning a lot of interesting things which will be useful if we want to decorate our home furniture. In May I will post photos of the chair finished ;)Greetings ^^